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Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.


William Hazlitt
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Often, economists spend their energies squabbling with one another, but arguably the more important contrast is between our broadly liberal economic worldview and the various alternatives - common around the globe - that postulate natural hierarchies of religion, ethnicity, caste and gender, often enforced by law and strict custom.
Tyler Cowen
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I can only hope the federal aid made available today will be sufficient in our recovery efforts, and pray that our citizens continue to be safe from the fallout of this dangerous natural disaster.
Mike Rogers
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When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience.
Ron Wyden
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Like all other law-abiding Americans, I fully support legal immigration.


Ted Nugent
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Companies shouldn't use the law to prevent consumers from doing something legal.


Jon Johansen
It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
Patrick Henry
Positivism eliminates any kind of natural law principle - for example, that there are economic laws which can be transgressed only at your peril. With positivism, there is a tendency to leap into ad hoc economic theory.
Murray Rothbard
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I researched children's rights, divorce law, and parental kidnapping. Millions of children and parents are touched by the inadequacy of the legal system to deal with the human heart.
Amity Gaige
The very idea of law originates in men's natural rights. There is no other standard, than natural rights, by which civil law can be measured. Law has always been the name of that rule or principle of justice, which protects those rights. Thus we speak of natural law.
Lysander Spooner
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When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.
Patricia Ireland
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Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
Charles de Secondat
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The custom of going to a party only when we have been invited is a necessary, attractive, decent way for a party to evolve.
Letitia Baldrige
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At Cheney's initiative, the United States stripped terror suspects of long-established rights under domestic and international law, building a new legal edifice under exclusive White House ownership.
Barton Gellman
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There is one unity, unified wholeness, total natural law, in the transcendental unified consciousness.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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Under well-settled legal principles, lethal force against a valid military objective, in an armed conflict, is consistent with the law of war and does not, by definition, constitute an 'assassination.'
Jeh Johnson
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No sanction can stand against ignited minds.


A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law, major legal barriers prevented intelligence, national defense, and law enforcement agencies from working together and sharing information.
Roger Wicker
I think it's pathetic that a court of law cannot be in a vacuum of the legal system, without the influence of the public threatening to do great bodily harm to people and property. It's really a pathetic statement for our country.
Mark Fuhrman
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Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.


William Gilmore Simms
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